Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Franz Kafka across 4 places, from 1915 to 1924.
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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Franz Kafka is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Franz Kafka was documented, and when
1915year
Hungaryattested“He accompanied her on a 1915 trip to Hungary to visit Hermann, who was stationed there, and spent a summer with her and her children in Müritz the year before he died.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
September 1923month
Berlinattested“Kafka, hoping to escape the influence of his family to concentrate on his writing, moved briefly to Berlin (September 1923-March 1924) and lived with Diamant.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
3 June 1924exact date
Viennaattested“He went to Hugo Hoffmann's sanatorium in Kierling just outside Vienna for treatment on 10 April, and died there on 3 June 1924.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
3 June 1924exact date
Kierlingattested“He went to Hugo Hoffmann's sanatorium in Kierling just outside Vienna for treatment on 10 April, and died there on 3 June 1924.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
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1893year
Old Town Squarementioned“After leaving elementary school in 1893, Kafka was admitted to the rigorous classics-oriented state gymnasium, , an academic secondary school at Old Town Square, located within Kinský Palace.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
1893year
Kinskmentioned“After leaving elementary school in 1893, Kafka was admitted to the rigorous classics-oriented state gymnasium, , an academic secondary school at Old Town Square, located within Kinský Palace.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
1911year
Praguementioned“In late 1911, Elli's husband Karl Hermann and Kafka became partners in the first asbestos factory in Prague, known as Prager Asbestwerke Hermann & Co., having used dowry money from Hermann Kafka.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
13 August 1912exact date
Berlinmentioned“On 13 August 1912, Kafka met Felice Bauer, a relative of Brod's, who worked in Berlin as a representative of a dictaphone company.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
1914year
Munichmentioned“The boy, whose name is not known, was born in 1914 or 1915 and died in Munich in 1921.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
1915year
Graal-Müritzmentioned“He accompanied her on a 1915 trip to Hungary to visit Hermann, who was stationed there, and spent a summer with her and her children in Müritz the year before he died.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
1917year
Chinamentioned“First published in Buber's Der Jude in 1917, Kafka's story "Jackals and Arabs" is an illustration of the tendency that Buber describes in this letter: Arabs are called Arabs, elsewhere Chinese may be directly referred to as people from C…”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
July 1923month
Graal-Müritzmentioned“During a vacation in July 1923 to Graal-Müritz on the Baltic Sea, Kafka met Dora Diamant, a 25-year-old kindergarten teacher from an orthodox Jewish family.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
March 1924month
Praguementioned“Kafka's laryngeal tuberculosis worsened and in March 1924 he returned from Berlin to Prague, where members of his family, principally his sister Ottla, as well as Dora Diamant, took care of him.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
March 1924month
Berlinmentioned“Kafka's laryngeal tuberculosis worsened and in March 1924 he returned from Berlin to Prague, where members of his family, principally his sister Ottla, as well as Dora Diamant, took care of him.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
11 June 1924exact date
New Jewish Cemetery, Praguementioned“His body was brought back to Prague where he was buried on 11 June 1924, in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
11 June 1924exact date
Žižkovmentioned“His body was brought back to Prague where he was buried on 11 June 1924, in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov.”source: Wikipedia: Franz Kafka
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